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A year after Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy SEALS, the terrorist organization he founded has been substantially weakened, but its offshoots in Yemen, Somalia, Iraq and elsewhere remain a threat - Take claims of Iran's nuclear capability with a grain of salt
- We owe a debt to those who have served, but we cannot pretend to understand the costs our wars of choice have inflicted on them.
- Obama's calm is needed to balance the hotheads calling for war with Iran
- The Obama administration's stated rationale for opposing an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear sites is weak; could domestic politics be the real reason?
- Life can be an unexpected journey, a fact evident in the pages of the book Lynn Abercrombie helped create about life with her late husband, National Geographic writer and photographer Tom Abercrombie.
- Before the U.S.-led invasion, Saddam Hussein granted nuclear inspectors access — and they found nothing
- As much as America wants to bring home its military veterans, they are still needed overseas to counter the nuclear threats
- Israel signals it won't wait forever before attacking Iran's nuclear weapons installations
- U.S. might have overstepped in Iraq but there's a danger in ignoring threats, too
- Letters purporting to explain the decision to invade Iraq ring hollow.
- Did Saddam have weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. invasion in 2003?
- Reader calls a letter writer who claims Iraq's chemical weapons were well-documented misinformed
- More than eight years after the U.S. invasion, all American troops will be out of Iraq by the end of this week; but it may be years before we know whether their sacrifice was worth it
- U.S. officials declared an end to the mission in Iraq on Thursday, lowering the flag used by the American forces in a ceremony at Baghdad International Airport attended by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Defense cuts: Pentagon expert Michael O'Hanlon says that in an age of austerity, the U.S. needs a military framework that's less ambitious but more flexible and realistic
- The naysayers who so easily dismiss the overwhelming evidence of climate change put the nation in peril
- America has never acted as an empire in a traditional sense, and the withdrawal from Iraq -- however misguided -- is proof.
- Despite planned troop withdrawal, our continued influence and presence there will be huge
- Liberals who hated torture in Iraq now embrace assassination in Libya
- Our mission of planting seeds of democracy throughout the region has been accomplished; if Iraq's democratically elected leaders now want us out, we should respect their decision and go
- Dan Rodricks' column on the civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan provided the most thoughtful commentary on the Sept. 11 anniversary.
- The U.S. is not the only country to suffer as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks and it is important to remember civilians lost in resulting wars
- In the 10 years since 9/11 the world is a different place, even if it's not only because of 9/11. People point to the fracturing of a nation that once was, however briefly, united in the face of the terrorist attacks.
- What can the U.S. do to reduce the threat posed by Libya's unsecured weapons stockpiles?
- While the fighting in Libya's capital appears to signal the end of Col. Gadhafi's 42-year rule, the rebels still face enormous challenges in stabilizing the country and preventing a collapse into anarchy
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- Obama is pursuing a 'little bit pregnant' strategy on force and regime change in Libya.